Splash-preventing device.



D. WALSH.

SPLASH PREVENTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. :4. 1m.

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DANIEL 'W'ALSH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPLASH-PREVENTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Application filed September 14, 1917. Serial No. 191,497.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL TALSH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of the Bronx, in the county of Bronx, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Splash-Preventing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The improvements relate to a device primarily intended to be used for the purpose of intercepting water or other liquid falling from a tap or spigot or a spout of any charactor, and to prevent it from splashing. They have other uses, however, as herein set forth, and as will appear to those skilled in the art and the user. They consist of the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying draw- III S.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a splash preventer embodying the improvements; Fig. I 2 is a vertical medial section of the same.

The part A may be of any desired shape and proportions, but in the illustration of the invention of the drawings is cylindrical in form and provided with a circumferential row of vertically elongated openings B near its bottom, but located a sufficient distance above the bottom to provide for a body of water below them which will act as a cushion to absorb the force of the falling water and prevent violent splashing.

The bottom of the cylinder A is closed by an adjustable cap C, which may be held thereon in any desired manneras for instance by a bayonet joint device-but is shown in the drawings as held in position by friction between its inner surface and the outer surface of the cylinder A. This cap may be removed entirely if desired, or moved up or down to adjust the size of or entirely close the openings B. The adjustment is useful for the purpose of regulating the flow of liquid from the receptacle to accommodate the rate of flow into it so that the said liquid will not rise and overflow the receptacle, but will be discharged there from through the openings in lateral streams.

It will be understood that various modifications of the construction shown in the drawings may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus the bottom of the cylinder A may be closed and the openings B regulated or closed by some other device than the cap G, and the cap C or the bottom of the cylinder, if closed, may be provided with grooves or other means to permit the liquid to flow thereunder to the outlet of a sink or other receptacle in which it is placed, if it is placed over the said outlet.

In operation the device is placed under the faucet or the like and resting on the bottom of the sink or other receptacle, and the water turned on. It will then quickly fill to the level of the openings B, after which the water will be discharged laterally through the openings as fast as it flows in. In this manner splashing is prevented and the water is distributed so as to flow over and cleanse the bottom of the receptacle. The device may also be used for washing articles by placing the said articles therein and placing it beneath the tap, and in this case larger particles of dirt will be caught in the bottom so that they will not find their way to the outlet, and may be removed there from after the washing has been finished. The device may also be used as a skillet or as a receptacle for refuse in a sink or elsewhere, and the bottom may be provided with smaller openings to allow drainage.

hat I claim is:

1. A splash preventing device, comprising a vessel provided with a bottom, a series of openings above the bottom, an imperforate portion between the bottom and the openings, and an imperforate portion extending above the openings a greater distance than the distance of the highest opening from the bottom.

2. In a splash preventing device, a vessel comprising a hollow member open at its ends and a cap fitted to one end thereof and forming a bottom therefor, said member having a series of openings above its bot-tom end and an imperforate portion extending above the openings a greater distance than the distance of the openings from said bottom end, said cap being movable on said hollow member and extendingin one position above the openings.

3. In a splash preventing device, a vessel comprising a hollow member open at its ends and a removable cap fitted to one end thereof and forming a bottom therefor, said member having a series of openings above its bottom end and an imperforate portion extending above the openings a greater distance than the distance of the openings from said bottom end, said cap being movable on said hollow member and extending in one position above the openings.

4. A splash preventing device, comprising a portable vessel with an open top and a bot tom, provided with openings in its sides at difi'erent points in its cireumterence,and imperforate sides above the said openings, said iinperforate sides having a greater area than the area between the top and the bottom of said openings.

5. In a splash preventing device, a vessel comprising a hollow member open at one end and having a closure at its opposite end forming a bottom therefor, said member having a "series of openings below ,midheight and above its bOttOIIlBIlCl, and an imperforate portion extending from midheight to the said open end.

Witness iny hand this 13th day of September, 1917, at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York.

1 DANIEL WALSH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

